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Below, the wings are light in colour, slightly darker on the costa of 

 both primaries and secondaries, and the former have a dark shade on 

 outer margin and an indistinct transverse bar representing the reniform 

 above. Secondaries without any markings. Type, i 2 taken by Mr. 

 Norman Criddle at Aweme, Man., in my collection. 



At Washington I also made the following notes on the types of 

 species recently described by Dr. Dyar : 



Gortymi nephelepiena agrees with a form taken at Ottawa by Dr. 

 Fletcher and pronounced marg'uiidens by Sir George Hampson, and 

 '•near" that species by Dr. J. B. Smith. 



Gortyna nephasyntheta appeared to me to be probably a worn 

 7fiarghiidefts, with reniform a trifle more solidly white than usual. 



Gortyna anargyrea comes very near to pterisii, but the stigmata are 

 yellow-brown intead of white. 



Gortyna triorthia is pterisii, Bird, as admitted by Dr. Dyar. 



Gortyjia ochropte?ia is much like a washed-out serrata^ but the 

 white markings are smaller. 



I also saw a co-type of duplicates. Bird, described in the last January 

 number of this journal, but the author cannot be congratulated on this 

 name, as the feminine form duplicata would have been more appropriate. 



Correction. — If allowable, I should like to make the following cor- 

 rection in my paper on " New Histories and species in Papaipema (Hy- 

 droecia) " in the January number : page 25, line 27 and page 28 line 35, 

 for duplicates read duplicata. — Henry Bird, Rye, N. Y. 



IGNOTUS ^NIGMATICUS. 



Correction. — By some oversight, the name of Mr. Frederick 

 Blanchard was omitted on page 214 (July number). It should have 

 been inserted after the title " The Characters of Ignotus," as this portion 

 of the paper, as far as the middle of page 219, was contributed by him, at 

 the request of Mrs. Slosson, the writer of the article^ " A Bit of Contem- 

 porary History,'' and of the description of the species cenigfuaticus. Mrs. 

 Slosson has written to the Editor, expressing her great regret that she did 

 not observe this omission when reading the proof of the article. She is 

 anxious that the fullest credit should be given to Mr. Blanchard, who so 

 kindly prepared the careful diagnosis of the characters of this remarkable 

 insect. 



